The usual travel around by walking and hailing whatever mode of transportation one can find in Manila can’t compete with the LRT-1 IkotMNL Amazing Race, featuring the beautiful and famous places around Manila most especially the ones near the LRT-1 Stations. The race is an exciting adventure where LRT-1 passengers get to experience and rediscover Manila in a new light. The competition will be composed of 10 teams with 4 members each, all lined up to learn that Manila has so much to offer with regards to beauty and art.
The race will start at the LRT-1 Central Station.
Through the United Nations Avenue Station, the first destination is the National Museum of the Philippines, which features Lolong, the world’s largest crocodile in captivity. Inside the National Museum of Natural History, participants are up for a versed experience about our natural past and our rich flora and fauna. The museum houses several replicas and actual taxidermied specimens of fascinating creatures, from land, air, and sea. Also featured are botanical illustrations and recreated mini-mangrove and forest, sure to interest participants. Touring around this museum means to appreciate and to be proud of the works done by our local scientists and artists.
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Second pit-stop is set at Monumento and the challenge is to count the human sculptures on the Andres Bonifacio Monument.
Lastly, the race will feature the New Toho Food Center as it is the last destination that can be reached through the Carriedo Station. Known as the oldest restaurant in Manila, this Chinese restaurant had Jose Rizal as one of its customers. Participants would be able to get a taste of its more-than-a-century-old but freshly cooked delicacies, including the Pancit Bihon, its specialty. Participants would be able to fill themselves up, exhausted from appreciating the beautiful heritage sites around Manila.
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IkotMNL is a rare opportunity to uniquely travel around the different attractions found in the city of Manila. No other means of travel can compare when all your senses are heightened, eager to discover that some things are truly beautiful if we look at them in a new perspective.